Best Horror movies of 1971

Actors : Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

A doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar, Anton Phibes, seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife's death.

Actors : Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Zohra Lampert, Gretchen Corbett,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

Actors : Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Madeleine Collinson, Dennis Price,
Directors : John Hough,

A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Katy, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Bennett, John Bryans,
Directors : Peter Duffell,

An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the UK.

Actors : Claudio Camaso, Luigi Pistilli, Claudine Auger, Anna Maria Rosati,
Directors : Mario Bava,

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing ...

Actors : Pier Paolo Capponi, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, James Franciscus,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.

Actors : Michele Dotrice, Patrick Wymark, Barry Andrews, Linda Hayden,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

Horror thriller set in 17th century England about the children of a village slowly converting into a coven of devil worshipers.

Actors : Paul Galloway, Gerald Cruse, Marshall Grauer, Wade Popwell,

A mad scientist transforms himself into an aquatic killer.

Actors : Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Dennis Price,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

Actors : John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

Actors : Maurice Denham, Sandor Elès, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

In medieval Europe aging Countess Elisabeth rules harshly with the help of lover Captain Dobi. Finding that washing in the blood of young girls makes her young again she gets Dobi to start ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Parkins, Alan Alda,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

Alan Alda's character is a music journalist whose career as a piano player came to an end when his debut concert received undeservedly scathing reviews.

Actors : Martine Beswick, Lewis Fiander, Gerald Sim, Ralph Bates,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. He reasons that these hormones will wipe out all common diseases ...

Actors : Angharad Rees, Eric Porter, Jane Merrow, Keith Bell,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

As a young child Jack the Ripper's daughter witnesses him kill her mother. As a young woman she carries on the murderous reign of her father. A psychiatrist tries to cure her with tragic consequences.

Actors : Charles Bateman, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Michael Dante, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.

Actors : Yutte Stensgaard, Suzanna Leigh, Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful ...

Actors : Yvonne Winslow, Emby Mellay, Lee Amber, Michael Berry,
Directors : Don Henderson,

A young man meets a farm girl who is actually a witch.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Thora Hird, Stephanie Beacham, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Actors : Hugh Burden, Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Valerie Leon,

An archaeological expedition brings back to London the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magical powers. Her spirit returns in the form of a young girl and strange things start to happen.